Old EnglishMany word forms now show the right dictionary entry and grammar, including gefullode ("were baptized") in Matthew 3:6 and other participles after wǣron, weorþan and wesan, rihtwīsendra as the noun "Sadducee" in Matthew 3:7 and other -endra nouns such as etendra ("eaters"), weak genitive plurals such as nǣddrena ("of snakes") and eágena ("of eyes"), twelftandæg ("twelfth day") and ten more dictionary entries that were missing, Latin Bible names such as Esaiam and Iudam showing "accusative", and words with two senses such as sol and mōs leading with the sense that matches their grammar.Oct 9
All LanguagesOn phones narrower than 360 px the study-language picker shows only its icon, so page titles fit.Oct 7
Old EnglishMany names now show the right reading, including Latin forms of Bible names such as Iordanen ("Jordan"), Iudee ("Judea"), Esaiam ("Isaiah"), Ierusalem ("Jerusalem") and Crīstum ("Christ"), capitalized God, Godes and Gode as "God", and names such as Hǣlend ("Jesus"), Drihten ("the Lord"), Heorot and Scyld.Oct 5
Old EnglishDictionary definitions no longer show leftover notes such as Latin equivalents and cross-references, entries that point to another entry now show that entry's definition, and verb forms such as gefullode also list the verb's other sense ("to baptize").Oct 5
Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
All LanguagesThe word panel shows "Explain this sentence" at the bottom, after the dictionary entry.Oct 4
All LanguagesThe sign-in email field is now marked for password manager autofill on both the page and popup.Oct 3
All LanguagesOn phones the word panel is shorter, the page scrolls so the word you tapped stays visible above it, and tapping another word switches the panel in one tap.Oct 3
All LanguagesPressing Escape in a text field, such as a personal definition or a new collection name, cancels only that field, and closing a panel returns focus to where you were.Oct 3
All LanguagesRemoving a text from a collection now asks you to confirm and shows an error if it fails, and "Mark as…" actions on a list use the app's own confirm dialog.Oct 3
All LanguagesTap targets in the Reader and word panel are larger, on/off switches are clearer, and the chapter list has higher contrast.Oct 3
All LanguagesMissing pages, texts and collections now say what was not found and link to the library and search, and errors keep the site header and footer with Try again, Go to the library and Report this problem.Oct 3
All LanguagesFor educators and the unsubscribe page now follow your chosen language, and opening the unsubscribe page without a link no longer says you were unsubscribed.Oct 3
All LanguagesThe daily goal now reads "Mark 5 words", and a new account no longer sees "No flashcards due today" ticked as done.Oct 3
All LanguagesThe settings page loads faster, the daily goal accepts 1 to 500 and saves when you press Enter, and amounts use your currency and number format.Oct 3
All LanguagesSupporters whose card failed keep their perks and see how to update the card, and supporters whose support ended see the end date.Oct 3
All LanguagesOn phones, the quick filter chips scroll on one line, the Add filter picker names its filter, and long collection descriptions stop after two lines.Oct 3
All LanguagesLapsed supporters still see their own collections and texts on the shelf in read-only form, signed-out visitors see a panel about keeping their own texts there, and adding a text to a collection closes the sheet and updates the shelf.Oct 3
All LanguagesText cards no longer repeat the source line or show "Unknown source" or a raw URL, catalog texts drop the "Imported" and Public labels, and new personal collections get shorter links.Oct 3
All LanguagesFlashcard fronts show a word's accent as acute, such as γυνή, instead of the grave accent it takes in a sentence.Oct 3
All LanguagesThe reader settings panel, the word right-click and long-press menu, sentence explanations, the speak button, the page controls and the word breakdown chip are now translated into Swedish and Greek, and the About this text and Reader settings names match everywhere.Oct 3
All LanguagesWhen a sentence explanation fails or comes back empty, the panel says so, shows Try again only when it can help, and offers a Back to link for the word, which now has its Explain button higher in the word panel.Oct 3
Old EnglishIllustrated Old English chapters hold space for their pictures so the text does not jump, hide a picture that fails to load, give each picture alt text, and load a much smaller book cover.Oct 3
Old EnglishJoined Old English expressions no longer show a "compound" gloss that does not fit them.Oct 3
All LanguagesA book with some chapters not yet available says which chapters are not available yet instead of "You've finished".Oct 3
All LanguagesTurning macrons off now applies to titles and the word headword.Oct 3
All LanguagesText copy mode is labelled "For this session only", clicking the Aa or Chapters button again closes its panel, and the smallest line spacing keeps coloured words apart.Oct 3
All LanguagesA difficulty of zero bars now reads "None", and the speak button explains why it is unavailable.Oct 3
Old EnglishLatin-form biblical names such as Herodem, Iohannem, Moysen and Petrum now open their entries (Herod, John, Moses, Peter) as accusative, and Bosworth-Toller definitions no longer list stray Old English words or grammar notes as meanings, with real definitions for cwealmness ("pain, torment") and þwærness ("agreement").Oct 3
All LanguagesScreen readers now announce loading messages such as "Loading texts..." once, on the Texts and Collections lists, the dictionary search, flashcards, and other pages that load content.Oct 1
All LanguagesWhen a filter or search leaves the Texts or Collections list with one page or no results while a page button has keyboard focus, focus moves to the list.Oct 1
Old EnglishMore Old English words show the right reading, such as swȳde ("very"), hēhnysse ("height, highness"), rēċels and wriġels with their palatal dots, Rachel, Philippus ("Philip the apostle") and Hierosolimwaru ("the people of Jerusalem"), and Bosworth-Toller definitions no longer show editor's notes, quotation scraps, stray brackets or repeated glosses.Oct 1
Old EnglishMore Old English words now resolve or show the right reading, such as tungelwītegan ("star prophet, astrologer"), þotorung ("howling, wailing") and worold ("world"); nille no longer lists willan as a second reading; nouns chosen by the sentence list all their cases and keep their long-vowel marks; Bosworth-Toller definitions no longer show dictionary editing notes; and a long headword is no longer cut off in the desktop word panel.Sep 29
All LanguagesWhen you go to the next or previous page on the Texts and Collections tabs, the current page stays on screen with a loading label until the new page arrives, and your scroll position stays where it was.Sep 29
All LanguagesSaving an edit to a text re-checks only the sentences you changed, so a small fix saves in about a second.Sep 29
All LanguagesA text over 5,000 words is refused when you save an edit, with a message to split it into more than one text, and the editor stays open with your text.Sep 29
All LanguagesAfter you save an edit, the editor stays in its saving state until the page reloads instead of briefly showing the old text.Sep 29
All LanguagesImporting a text from a URL now tells you what went wrong, such as a page with no Greek, a link that is not a text page, a mistyped address, or a website that is down, instead of showing a server error.Sep 28
All LanguagesWhen you are signed out, the home page tab says Kevilex · Read Ancient Greek and Old English, and when you are signed in it says Kevilex · Dashboard.Sep 28
Sep 21 – 27, 2026
All LanguagesThe chapter list fills the space under the title, the collection link, and Previous and Next on a wide screen and on a phone.Sep 27
All LanguagesWhile Style Settings is open, the Aa button looks selected, like the Chapters button.Sep 27
All LanguagesWhen you open the next or previous chapter, the text leaves at once and a loading animation shows in its place until the new chapter arrives, the reader bar keeps the current title during that wait, and the current chapter comes back if the new chapter does not open.Sep 26
All LanguagesThe reader bar stays in place when you open another chapter.Sep 26
All LanguagesWhen you are signed in, the header shows Dashboard and Progress as soon as the page appears, and Supporter when you are a supporter.Sep 26
Old EnglishMore strong-verb forms now resolve in the reader, such as æfterrēow ("rowed after"), and show the dictionary headword, its meaning, and its grammar.Sep 26
Old Englishbēom after "þām" and Bēon before "sindon" now read as bee (bēo) instead of the verb "to be", and ġefēran after "his", "mīnum", "twēġen" and similar words now reads as gefēra ("companion") instead of a verb; biþ no longer repeats a second "is" line for bēon; Englaland, Englalonde and Englalande now share one entry, so marking one as known marks them all, and "Haha" reads as the interjection "ha ha" instead of hēah ("high"); frēcenlīċe before a plural noun reads as the adjective "dangerous", and lowercase eotenas reads as eoten ("giant, monster") instead of the Jutes; rȳmett reads as the noun rȳmet ("room, space"), spric reads as the imperative of sprecan ("to speak"), and ġeocian and ġeġeocod read as "to yoke", with ġēocian ("to preserve") kept as its own entry; and definitions no longer show Wiktionary labels such as "Of persons:" or Bosworth-Toller editorial notes such as "in Dict" and "and add", and a definition taken from Clark Hall or Bosworth-Toller is now labelled with that dictionary instead of Wiktionary.Sep 25
All LanguagesFlashcard buttons for one text, and the card at the end of a chapter, say Review, and the number is how many cards the session will start with.Sep 24
All LanguagesThe "+ Add Filter" button hides when there is no filter left to add.Sep 23
All LanguagesWhen you open Etymology, the word popup keeps the loading line until the lookup ends, says "No etymology available" only if that lookup finds no etymology, shows "Try again" if the lookup fails, and opens Etymology on the next word if you left it open.Sep 22
All LanguagesReading without signing in shows the sign-up prompt again after five word lookups; on texts added recently it had stopped appearing.Sep 21
Old English9,955 word forms now gain a sense from Clark Hall or Bosworth-Toller that Wiktionary alone did not show: onġēan in "Sēo bēo flīeġþ onġēan Ōsweald." now lists "towards" among its readings instead of only "against" and "opposite"; þǣre no longer offers a Bosworth-Toller cross-reference as a definition; hē and hēo no longer show heo, hit, or he under the wrong gender; and mehc and hiore now resolve to their entries.Sep 21
Sep 14 – 20, 2026
All LanguagesThe import page heading reads "Import" and stays on one line on a phone.Sep 19
All LanguagesAn empty collection you made shows on your shelf and in the "Add to collection" list.Sep 18
Old EnglishWord lookups and word panels show more accurate results: þǣre no longer offers "definition not found" as something you can pick; bēon in "he sees many bees" shows singular or plural instead of singular only; him shows one correct reading instead of four repeats of the same pronoun form; forhwām's definition reads "wherefore, why; who" instead of breaking on a stray period, and its word class no longer shows as "unknown"; and Word Form Analysis for bēon no longer opens with a blank "or:" line.Sep 17
All LanguagesOn a wide screen, the reader bar puts more space between the Kevilex logo and Back.Sep 16
Old EnglishChapter titles in the reader bar show macron capitals such as Ō in the Old English reading face, with the mark fully visible.Sep 16
All LanguagesWords you mark as Learning or Known are saved when you leave the page, including after a session where you marked many of them.Sep 16
Old EnglishMore words now show the right reading: contracted negative forms of wesan ("to be") such as nis show as the compound ne plus the matching verb form; For·hwām shows "wherefore, why" where it showed no definition at all; For·þām offers its "therefore" reading alongside "because"; dæġe drops the "female servant" reading its spelling rules out; and him drops "we" from its pronoun readings, with the same correction across every Old English personal pronoun.Sep 16
Old EnglishMacrons on capital letters in the word popup sit clearly above the letter instead of clipping against the title line.Sep 14
Sep 7 – 13, 2026
Old EnglishURL import in Old English study mode no longer fails with "No Greek text detected in the page" when the page holds valid Old English.Sep 13
Old EnglishUntydras in Beowulf now shows untȳdre ("evil progeny, monster") instead of "firm, unbending".Sep 12
All LanguagesForm analysis for a proper noun uses the label proper noun.Sep 12
All LanguagesA text opens even when sign-in does not finish, including inside an ebook embed.Sep 12
All LanguagesA missing page now has a Back to Kevilex button that takes you home.Sep 12
All LanguagesWord lookups keep working while dictionary updates are released.Sep 11
All LanguagesImporting a longer text is more reliable and finishes faster, including texts that failed with the message "The language analysis service failed and this import was not saved."Sep 9
All LanguagesWhen a flashcard form belongs to more than one dictionary word, the back shows a chip for each entry, and the definition matches the form analysis.Sep 8
All LanguagesOn the Search page, the Previous and Next buttons above and below the text and collection lists are easier to tap on a phone, keep keyboard focus when you reach the first or last page, and stay in place while the next page loads.Sep 8
Old EnglishMore verb forms now show the right dictionary entry: the contracted third-person forms of verbs whose stem ends in d, t or þ, about a hundred in all, among them bestant (bestandan, "to stand by, surround"), cwet (cweðan, "to say, speak"), bregt (bregdan, "to draw a sword"), behealt (behealdan, "to hold, observe"), forstant (forstandan, "to defend, understand"), bidt (biddan, "to ask, pray"), wiþstant (wiþstandan, "to resist") and ymbsnit (ymbsniþan, "to circumcise"); and the second-person neþst (neþan, "to dare, venture"), scriþst (scriþan, "to glide"), grædst, ongeotst, onlædst and ahyldst show their own verb instead of a similar-looking one.Sep 8
Old EnglishMore words now show the right dictionary entry: āgylt in Matthew 6:4 reads as āġieldan ("to pay, repay, reward"), with "to sin" kept as an alternate reading; aliesedlice shows its own entry "freely" rather than the comparative ālīesedlīċra ("more freely"); and the given names Wēohstān, Wiglaf's father in Beowulf, and Eormenþryþ no longer carry a grammatical gender their own definition contradicts.Sep 7
Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026
All LanguagesA sheet or dialog opened from inside another one — the collection picker opened from a text's details sheet, or a sentence explanation opened over a word — dims the sheet behind it.Sep 6
Old EnglishMore words now show their degree, and which positive word a comparative or superlative belongs to: adverbs such as oftor, heardost, hraþor, swiþor and the whole -licor and -licost family carry a degree in the form analysis, about 78 forms in all; wiersa ("worse") shows yfel ("bad"), māra shows miċel, nīehst shows nēah and lǣssa shows lytel as the word they are formed from, about 47 forms; Scyldes in Beowulf shows the proper noun Sċyld, ancestor of the Danish royal line, instead of the unrelated feminine noun sċyld ("guilt, sin"); and eaþ ("easily"), aliesedlice and afandodlicra carry only their own degree, with a separate comparative reading shown on its own.Sep 6
All LanguagesThe study-language selector and the text and collection menus announce their name to screen readers, and close when you tap outside them or when the page scrolls.Sep 5
All LanguagesFixed long text imports and re-saves failing with the message "The language analysis service failed and this import was not saved."Sep 4
Old Englishmurgan, murgum, and murga, forms of myrġe ("merry, pleasant"), show their palatal dot, matching myrgan, myrgum, and myrga.Sep 4
Old EnglishMore word forms now show the right dictionary entry and grammar: present participles with case endings such as rīdendra and lufigendes show their verb instead of the noun ende ("end"); past participles in -es such as ġelufodes and ġebundenes resolve; preterites of geminate verbs such as ġecyste (ġecyssan, "to kiss") and ātealde (ātellan, "to count") show the right verb; ġerīst and its siblings read as 2nd or 3rd person singular; hwæs, hwes, and hwæne show the interrogative pronoun hwā rather than an unrelated adjective or adverb; þæne and þare show the demonstrative sē; þiosne and þeosse show þes with a part of speech; fierra shows feorr ("far") rather than fȳr ("fire"); yldestan shows eald ("old"); and sēlestena shows the adjective sēl ("good").Sep 4
Old EnglishWords ending in -iġ spell their shortened stem with a plain g throughout, so hālgan and hālges match: about 880 forms of 110 words, among them hāliġ ("holy"), ēadiġ ("blessed"), mōdiġ ("proud") and ǣniġ ("any"), and merewērges in The Seafarer. The full forms hāliġes and hāliġne keep their dot.Sep 3
Old EnglishAbout 1,000 word forms now show the palatalization dot their dictionary headword already carried, so a word's popup no longer spells the same word two ways; alternate readings are now spelled the same way as the main entry; and gebeorgan ("to protect"), bæc ("back"), blæc ("black"), regnscur ("rain shower"), ciriclic ("church, ecclesiastical") and several more headwords show the correct dots.Sep 2
All LanguagesOn the home page, the "Ways to read an ancient language" comparison now reads as cards on a phone, and the menu no longer opens misaligned.Sep 1
Old EnglishHundreds of dictionary headwords now show the palatalization dots their own word forms already displayed, among them ġelīca ("the like, fellow"). Four words lose a dot they should never have carried: cēpan ("to keep"), blōdgian ("to make bloody"), bīcnian ("to indicate") and lagian ("to ordain by law"). Four more gain one that was missing: sċrenċan ("to trip up"), ġewasċan ("to wash"), ġehæġ ("enclosure") and ġeeġsian ("to frighten").Sep 1
All LanguagesWords you mark just before you close the tab or switch away are saved.Aug 31
All LanguagesA personal definition you clear in the reader stays cleared.Aug 31
All LanguagesIf you get signed out while reading, a bar at the top of the reader tells you and offers Sign In and Sign Up.Aug 31
Old Englishāgen ("own") displays without a palatalization dot, and ġelīċ ("like"), ġeweġan ("to weigh"), ġeherġian ("to plunder"), ġeġearwian ("to prepare") and ġesċēadan ("to distinguish") now show the dot their root already carries. The adverb aġēn ("again") keeps its dot.Aug 31
Aug 24 – 30, 2026
Old EnglishYou can save an edit to an Old English text you imported.Aug 30
Old EnglishMany word forms now show the right dictionary entry: comparatives and superlatives such as wiersa ("worse") and mǣst ("most") carry their own definition, the demonstrative se displays without a long vowel mark, and wurðað reads as "to honour" where the sentence calls for it.Aug 30
All LanguagesOn a wide screen, the word of the day on the dashboard sits level with the Today date heading.Aug 29
All LanguagesCompound and Crasis cards keep each part's gloss to two lines.Aug 29
All LanguagesThe "You are not signed in" banner no longer appears on the homepage or the pages for educators and Biblical Greek readers; it still appears on other pages while you are signed out.Aug 29
Old EnglishWord readings are more accurate: forms such as hāten (hātan, "to call") and ābedecod (ābedecian, "to beg for") read as past participles, participles show their tense as "preterite", and inflected forms of comparatives and superlatives such as māre (māra, "greater") and beteran (betera, "better") read as comparative or superlative.Aug 29
Old EnglishThe definition shown matches how the word is used in the sentence: hund reads as "hundred" after a number, as in syx hund ("six hundred"), and ān leads with the numeral "one".Aug 29
All LanguagesThe feedback button no longer covers an open sheet or dialog, so a tap near the bottom-right corner reaches the word popup, the signup reminder, or the menu you are using.Aug 28
Old EnglishVerb readings are more complete: past participles such as hāten (hātan, "to call") and oferdrifen (oferdrīfan, "to overcome") now appear among a word's readings, mood is shown consistently so helpaþ (helpan, "to help") reads as "present, indicative, plural" and wǣren (wesan, "to be") as subjunctive, hātte reads as passive ("is called"), and magan ("to be able") no longer carries a palatalization dot.Aug 28
Old EnglishWords with more than one dictionary sense now show every sense, so hund gives "hundred" as well as "dog"; māre (miċel, "great") reads as the comparative "more" instead of an unrelated noun, ongon reads as onginnan ("to begin"), and a word's definition list leads with its main sense.Aug 28
All LanguagesImporting a text is more reliable: long pastes no longer fail partway through, a failed import tells you nothing was saved so you can try again, and an import that was cut off no longer leaves an empty text in your library.Aug 27
All LanguagesThe weekly progress email now matches what you read: it is titled "Your week of reading", an all-Old-English week is greeted with "Wes hāl!" instead of Greek, and the recommended collection is always in a language you read.Aug 26
All LanguagesScreen readers announce the "Add to Collection" and "Add Texts" pickers as dialogs, and keyboard focus stays inside the "Add Texts" picker and the reader's style settings while they are open.Aug 26
All LanguagesThe reader's page-turn buttons keep keyboard focus when you reach the first or last page, and they are easier to tap on a phone.Aug 26
Old EnglishVerb tense readings are more accurate: wurde (weorþan, "to become") now reads as preterite rather than present, and the inflected infinitive tō oferflōwenne (oferflowan, "to overflow") no longer reads as preterite.Aug 26
All LanguagesWhen you finish the daily tasks, the Today card shows "Done for today" on the date row and the word of the day spans the full card.Aug 25
Old EnglishVerb forms now show their mood where the dictionary records it, so wite (witan, "to know") reads as "present, subjunctive, singular"; and words whose spelling covers two different dictionary entries, such as ece and æþryt, no longer show a long-vowel mark that belongs to only one of them.Aug 25
All LanguagesThe "Flashcards by text" list and its "All texts" page show only texts in your active study language.Aug 24
Old EnglishWord grammar readings are more consistent: verb forms that can be either first or third person, such as wæs (wesan, "to be"), now show a single "1st (or 3rd) singular" reading, the same way mihte (magan, "to be able") already did, instead of listing the two persons as separate readings; forms such as nime (niman, "to take") and wurde (weorþan, "to become") no longer name a person, since the Old English subjunctive singular is the same for all three; and a word no longer shows the same reading twice.Aug 24
Aug 17 – 23, 2026
All LanguagesReviewing a text's flashcards now works even when the text is not in your selected study language, and a word that a text spells in more than one way no longer appears twice in one session.Aug 23
Old EnglishVerb forms that are the same in more than one person, such as mihte (magan, "to be able"), hēt (hātan, "to command"), and arn (irnan, "to run"), now show both possible persons ("1st (or 3rd) singular") instead of picking one arbitrarily; and variant spellings of a word's dictionary form, such as ald ("old"), dyrne ("secret"), and cearleas ("careless"), now show the same grammar reading as the standard spelling instead of none at all.Aug 23
All LanguagesThe word of the day is now always a word you are not already learning, so "Add to flashcards" adds it, and its grammar line and dictionary entry match the word shown.Aug 23
Old EnglishWord grammar readings are more accurate: variant spellings such as ald ("old"), dyrne ("secret"), and abbud ("abbot") no longer show a grammar line that gives a spelling or dialect label instead of a grammatical form, and plural verbs such as begnornodon ("they mourned") and sint ("are") no longer claim a first or third person, which Old English plural endings do not mark.Aug 22
Old EnglishMore words now show their dictionary entry and grammar: hēdærn ("storehouse") and its spelling family, past-plural verb forms such as þiġeden (þicgan, "to receive") and bodadon (bodian, "to proclaim"), which also read as plurals, and verbs written with the prefix on-, such as onġeocaþ (ungeocian, "to unyoke").Aug 21
Old EnglishMore words in the reader now show the right dictionary entry. Compounds spelled with a variant of their first part, such as nēdþearf and worldrīce, now resolve. So do compounds written with a linking vowel, such as rōdetācne. Prefixed verbs such as wiðmynte and ūtsent now show a verb reading instead of nothing, and ætflēogan ("fly away") no longer shows as the noun "a fly".Aug 19
All LanguagesTexts you already know in full no longer sit at the top of "Recommended to Study", and the known-word counts on text cards now match what the reader shows.Aug 18
All LanguagesChanging a word's status now applies to every accent and capitalization variant of that word, and the change holds after a reload.Aug 18
Old EnglishAround 800 more dictionary headwords now show their pronunciation dots, so undergietan ("to understand, perceive") reads underġietan, gebeorgan ("to save, protect") reads ġebeorġan, and adrencan ("to drown") reads ādrenċan.Aug 18
All LanguagesMarking a word's status, or saving a personal definition for it, now updates every accent variant of that word on the page straight away, such as the pair Ἑλλάς and Ἑλλὰς.Aug 18
All LanguagesClicking a word now highlights every accent variant of it on the page, so a word spelled two ways no longer looks half-selected.Aug 18
Old EnglishWords built with a prefix, such as undergeat ("to understand, perceive"), ofgeat ("to soak"), and þurhgeat ("to pour through"), now show a verb grammar reading instead of an unrelated noun reading, and several more words now show their grammar reading for the first time, including forlǣton ("to abandon"), þigeð ("to receive"), ongan ("to begin"), and lǣranne ("to teach").Aug 17
Old Englisheallunge ("entirely") now shows "adverb" instead of "unknown", and yflan ("evil"), micclan ("great"), slepte and onslēpte ("to fall asleep"), and milðeortnysse ("mercy") now resolve instead of showing nothing.Aug 17
Old EnglishCommands such as onbēodan ("to command") and onblāwan ("to blow into") no longer show an impossible past-tense reading of a command.Aug 17
